Does anyone else find it interesting that chat gpt launched in 2022 and there’s been no discernible boost in GDP anywhere in the world from ai productivity boosts.
In 1483, the Timurid Emir of Samarkand, Sultan Ahmed Mirza, sent two rare lions as a gift to the Ming Emperor. Previous embassies had also brought lions as gifts, which the Chinese court found useless and expensive to keep. So, when the envoys Paluwan and Hoja Mahmad arrived at the border with the lioness Hasinah (Beauty), they were stopped and left waiting for months. During that time, they commissioned this near-life-size painting which they sent with their pleas to the imperial court.
If you zoom in, you can find their names in gold Chinese characters. There are also verses by the Emperor at the top along with the date of the event and the imperial seal.
Western narratives on China rarely work on people who look deeper. They mostly shape those who never question what they’re told.
Over 10 years ago, I met my wife who was based in Beijing. I’d never been before, and everything I knew came from news or people around me.
Honestly, I was hesitant to go — I thought it was dangerous, I could be wrongly accused of something and end up in serious trouble. My mum wasn't too keen on the idea, she’d watched documentaries on Australian TV that didn't paint the best picture.
But I went. Landing in Beijing changed that perception almost immediately. I remember taking the train into the city thinking - wow, it's on time, clean, and about 25 yuan. Efficient, cheap and clean isn't exactly what I'd describe Melbourne trains as 😂.
Over the next two weeks I experienced a side that was addictive, it made me want more — late-night food, affordability, order, and a sense of everyday safety that felt very different from what I’d been told.
I went back later for a 2 month trip — Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Liuzhou (my favourite noodle dish Luosifen!). I was skateboarding at the time, people would stop to talk in their broken English, super friendly and wanted to add me on WeChat so we could be skate buddies.
That was when I started to realise I could actually live here.
I got to Australia and was ready to go back straight away. I quit my IT job and moved to Beijing long term and my love and infatuation with the city grew — It's a place where you need to live there to truly appreciate and love it — still one of my favourite places I’ve ever lived.
What I found on my China journey wasn’t what I was told. Definitely not what my mum had been told.
A place I now proudly call my second home.
El país que más invierte en inteligencia artificial del planeta acaba de sancionar una ley nacional para obligar a sus ciudades a abrir bibliotecas y volver a los libros de papel.
China era el candidato perfecto para enterrar el papel: pone más de cien mil millones de dólares al año en inteligencia artificial y es de los que más la incluyen en los currículos educativos. Si algún país iba a declarar que el libro ya no hace falta, que para eso está la máquina, era este.
Sin embargo, hizo exactamente lo contrario: en vez de mandar todo a la pantalla, está promoviendo el libro por ley. Desde el primero de febrero, rige una norma que obliga a cada gobierno local a poner dinero en bibliotecas, abrir espacios de lectura hasta en las zonas rurales y sostener una Semana Nacional de la Lectura. Desde ahora, es obligación del Estado.
¿Por qué un país que ya tiene la mejor tecnología se molesta en legislar la lectura? Porque separaron para qué sirve cada cosa. La inteligencia artificial te sirve para producir, competir, ir rápido: es la herramienta.
El libro te entrena en lo que ninguna máquina te da: atención sostenida y criterio propio. Es la cabeza la que después decide qué hacer con esa herramienta. Como lo resume uno de sus investigadores: solo a través de la lectura se llega a un pensamiento profundo e independiente.
El premier Li Qiang lo decretó dentro del mismo plan quinquenal donde está su apuesta de inteligencia artificial. Las dos cosas son estratégicas y van de la mano.
Mientras tanto, Estados Unidos hace el camino inverso: batió su récord de libros sacados de las escuelas (casi veintitrés mil desde 2021) y sus chicos sacaron las peores notas de lectura en más de veinte años, con cuatro de cada diez de cuarto grado que no llegan ni al nivel básico.
La inteligencia artificial la va a tener todo el mundo. La cabeza para saber qué hacer con ella, no. Usala para pensar CON vos y no POR vos.
@Linahuaa If you’re disagreeing with the poster here you’ve never dated an Asian woman and it shows 😂
They are the meanest most superficial cunts that do not ever shut the fuck up about how horrible you are
@Linahuaa Bro you have NO idea as to the circumstances to this murder. You projecting your hapa insecurities while the bodily is still warm is weird as fuck.
@Linahuaa You are a souless psychopath. Who the fuck justifies the murdering of wife and blames it in such disgusting ways to the victim.
You don't even know her character and you are assuming while the body of a victim is still hot
Another White American husband murdering his Asian wife.
It's no coincidence.
It's the combination of readily available American handguns + legendary Asian wife nagging.
"When are you getting promoted? Kevin's wife just got a new BMW"
"My cousin's husband earns more money than you and still has time for the gym"
"You bought video games from Steam AGAIN??? Have you even played the ones you already bought?"
"You spend all this money on your AIs but I have you actually built anything useful so far?"
"Jerry Thompson's company just had an IPO. I should have married him instead to be honest."
Never marry a woman who hates and betrays the men of her nation.
Many Chinese and Asian men often not only end of dating, but marrying Russian/Slavic women, but Russian/Slavic women only flatter Asian men because they also betray and have contempt for Slavic men.